[78-L] Autographs

[Jeff Sultanof]

Cary,

I have never seen it, but it exists, I thought at the Library of Congress.
It has been written about and discussed; I'm almost sure in an article by
the late Mark Tucker on the orchestrator of that version, Will Vodery, and
also in the latest Gershwin bio by Howard Pollack.

The Bassman version was prepared for a television performance from the
mid-50s, I believe on Monitor. I once held a reel of 16MM film which was a
Kinescope of this performance. Who knows where that Kini is now.

Jeff Sultanof

On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 11:13 AM, Cary Ginell <soundthink at live.com> wrote:

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> Did you ever find the original orchestration for Gershwin's "Blue Monday"?
> (1922). I published a piano/vocal songbook of this for Alfred last year, but
> all we had to work with was the reduction by George Bassman from the early
> '50s.
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